Artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies can be empowering instead of fearsome by enabling healthcare practitioners to put greater focus on patient care. This viewpoint, IHS Markit finds, is increasingly voiced throughout the healthcare industry as it adjusts to disruptive changes wrought by digital and transformative technologies.

Royal Philips has today announced an agreement to acquire the Healthcare Information Systems business line of Carestream Health Inc. The expectation is that combining Carestream’s cloud-based enterprise imaging platform with Philip’s radiology informatics products (including its own enterprise imaging solutions), will not only augment their overall technology platform, but will expand Philip’s footprint in Latin America, Europe, and Asia, where Carestream has been working to gain an installed base of healthcare systems.

On 1 March, Siemens acquired German PV inverter supplier Kaco New Energy as it seeks to build out its PV inverter portfolio to include three-phase string inverters. This acquisition is further evidence of Siemens expanding its capabilities in the area of decentralised energy, renewables, storage and electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure prior to its launch of its Smart Infrastructure Operating Company on 1 April 2019.

The PV Inverter Market Tracker is the only detailed and reliable assessment of the global market for solar inverters. The tracker provides new forecasts and supplier market shares for the global inverter market every quarter, highlighting the opportunities and challenges that will face inverter makers over the next 5-10 years.

The research contained in this report provides a taxonomy of the ecosystem supporting machine learning with diagnostic applications, the use cases for the machines, an estimate of investment in machine development, and the partnerships between suppliers and the healthcare industry. In total, more than 260 companies, academic organizations, and healthcare providers have been researched. The companies and organizations profiled are focused on aggregating and analyzing large datasets of information from clinical care services for the purpose of improving clinical decision support and health outcomes, not business analytics.

This is the tenth edition of IHS Markit’s highly regarded report on microinverters & power optimizers. It was researched over 8 months and provides the only detailed and reliable assessment of the global market. The report has been compiled using IHS Markit’s extensive knowledge and experience in the PV and power electronics industries.

The growth of the energy storage market offers suppliers of inverters a huge growth opportunity, across a wide range of applications and regions. Many existing providers of solar inverters and industrial power electronics have moved to take a leading position in this growth market.

Solar Power International is a leading trade show and conference for the solar and energy storage industries in the United States. After attending the show in Anaheim, California, the IHS Markit Solar and Energy Storage analyst team has summarized some major findings from the event.

Historically, both Enphase and SolarEdge have enjoyed success partly due to being “first movers” with their respective technologies of microinverters and power optimizers. Their successful sales execution and marketing, coupled with a boom in residential shipments in the United States and key global markets catapulted each company to occupy dominant positions in the module-level power electronics (MLPE) industry. However, in recent years, the intense price competition and challenging competitive landscape has pushed both companies to accelerate their pace of innovation and entry into new markets in order to maintain their leading positions and grow their business in revenue terms.

IHS Markit developed this report using a variety of sources, the core of which was composed of primary research interviews with specialists. This report presents VNA and IE independently and analyzes the industry by revenues for software and services, study volume, cumulative volume, new installations, sub-regions and regions.

This report provides an up-to-date, comprehensive description of the radiology and cardiology IT software and services market and identifies trends that will have a significant influence over the next five years. The scope of this report covers revenue from software, services, installed base, and analysis of cloud usage.

Intersolar North America is a leading trade show and conference for the solar and energy storage industries in the United States. After attending the show, the IHS Markit Solar and Energy Storage analyst team has summarized some major findings from the event.

A 10% tariff on Chinese manufactured PV inverters and AC modules has been proposed by the United States Trade Representative. Chinese PV inverter suppliers and some western suppliers may be impacted if the tariffs are approved.
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